when something any find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . britain's conservative and labor parties accuse each other of failing to provide the london bridge attack and release from prison but the issue up for debate. membership of the terrorist organization should cause a life imprisonment would result but what do you mean nobody can know the terms of . terrorism. russia and china strengthen the ties by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline dubbed the power of siberia. an us investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and powerful political plans as a reporter claims hillary clinton caught him off when he starts investigating

hollywood producer harvey feinstein's sex offenses. its 2 pm this monday afternoon here in moscow where if you are in the wild thanks she's an international welcome to the program. and that start in the u.k. where one story in particular has been grabbing headlines dozens of people convicted of terrorist offenses who were released on license a we'll have that case is reviewed that's according to prime minister boris johnson it comes off it was revealed that the suspect in friday's london bridge attack houghton self been released. any other legal are in the same he will show loud out and there was no in this has nothing to do with parole there was nothing to do with probation how many legally same's legally there are for everybody so this is really become a talking point over the weekend since that attack on friday on london bridge towards

the side where the city of london financial district is now of course the person involved. somebody who had already been found guilty of involvement in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange but then was released as part of a scheme and there were attempts to try to rehabilitate him and put him back into society if you will that it was actually one of those events which were organized for not just him as a convicted terrorist but other acts offenders to attend and it was that of reportedly that he decided to launch his attack an attack killing 2 people in injuring 3 others on london bridge and as i said that has over the weekend sparked a number of political accusations back and forth about who's to blame for this terrorist being on the streets these people darron should never ever be let out of

prison unless we're absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus people don't want history lessons after this terrorist atrocity what people want is to put victims 1st and keeping community safe 1st and if he had been sentenced under our rules he would still be in jail today no terrorist should be released without it being properly assessed whether or not they still pose a risk to the public in scotland we have indeed automatic early release for prisoners sentenced to more than 4 years in prison so there's plenty of political fallout as the different parties point the finger at each other the conservatives try. say that this early release scheme is ultimately the responsibility of the labor party while the labor say well firstly it was a conservative government under which this terrorist was released but also that the conservative budget cuts impacted policing and meant that terrorists like this

it's much harder to find now boris johnson over the weekend has been advocating for a policy of locking terrorists up and throwing away the key if you will even his own foreign secretary dominic robb confirms that the conservative party have a policy of a minimum 14 years sentence for dangerous terrorists and there's no guarantee that even would have made a difference in this case because this. was sentenced to 16 years and was the least early so there will be those who are calling for that to be changed while the leader of the labor party during the corbin is arguing that each case should be taken on its merits and that you can't apply a blanket scheme all round so many different opinions as we head towards a poll in just 10 days now that will decide everything from meet the u.k.'s education and environment policy and also how to fight crime and terrorism well i

guess debated the issues raised by early release. since september the 11th we've released 500 terrorists who have committed acts of terrorism in the u.k. that these 2 men a and clearly we need to toughen up our laws at the end you've got to remember that these people are quite quite unusual of whilst we need to control them we also need to be very clear that we cannot infringe on civil liberties. because they are so important because these post isis post liberal post in lighten if you like terror attacks happening on home soil they've often come home grown terrorists radicals criminals whatever you like to call them but they have been institutional failures the state security apparatus can do better should do better and isn't doing better and we have to ask questions why i remember the police the security services the courts are attempting to prevent these violent terrorists from

attacking this country the question here is what are we doing about those people who are involved in terrorist organizations but have not yet committed serious terrorist offenses i say membership of any terrorist organization should have a life imprisonment or if that would resolve the what do you mean member should know even know who carries it but you know i mean how hard are terrorism friends on drawdown going on there you know be under its own country i don't have a terrorist organization i've got no problem on terrorism the hard line thing to saying like throw away the key or terrorism should terrorists go to prison forever that's absolutely fine you know or even open up a dialogue on is capital punishment appropriate some people in some cases ok however what we have to do is ply apply fairly across the board if we are allowing entrapment cases where people are sent to syria and then they come back we reduce their citizenship we transduced their rights you talk about civil rights and human rights what about the bethnal green schoolgirls who at 14 or 15 were transported to

syria if you join a terror organization we have to find out why we have to tackle these issues properly we're talking about people going to syria. or go into training camps in pakistan people who are engaging in acts of terror whether that be fund raising whether that be terrorist training or whether it be actual acts of terrorism in terms of violence those sorts of people should no more be treated reasonably than somebody who turns around and says i only murdered this woman because it was a crime of passion the law needs to change membership of terrorist organizations needs to hold a maximum penalty of life in prison and then judges can choose whether that maximum is appropriate on a case by case basis that to me seems sensible. now let's go to the us because a journalist that claims his former boss and friend hillary clinton distance herself from him because he planned to investigate the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey feinstein. it's remarkable how quickly even people with a long relationship with you will turn if you threaten the centers of power or the

sources of funding around them ultimately there are lots of people out there who operate in that way they're beholden to powerful interests and if you go up against those interests you become radioactive very quickly we're in and far walk to 50 years of clinton special advise in fact from 2011 when she was u.s. secretary of state harvey weinstein meanwhile donated tens of thousands of dollars to clinton's 2016 presidential campaign before the sexual assault scandal unfolded don't report her looks at how in fact of journalism generally is becoming harder in the age of big corporate media. hollywood often portrays investigative journalists as knights in shining armor risking it all to protect the truth is that legal what is it is that we do it for a living. if we don't. leave the country. i wish to do my job you really want to. hear because i think you're going to tell

this story we're going to tell it right and reality though snooping around the lives of influential people could have serious repercussions it could land you in trouble even if we're talking about hollywood royalty like ronan farrow he was essential to the new yorker's 2017 investigation into rape allegations against harvey weinstein the same one that received a pulitzer prize and through the me too movement into the mainstream before his journalism career farrow worked as a lawyer at one point serving under the then secretary of state hillary clinton as her advisor for global youth issues they made quite the team that is until farah began digging into weinstein's dirty laundry did you feel pressure from hillary clinton on and her staff raised concerns about the fact that i was working on this story about one of her most significant donors that they had bungler of hollywood money not to mention pharaoh's original collaborator and b c refused to publish the weinstein revelations all together but this isn't even

the only major story that the mainstream media big wigs have tried to smother a.b.c. anchor amy roebuck recently went public about her investigation into geoffrey epstein's pedophile operation which was killed by the network 3 years ago it was unbelievable what we had we had everything. and i tried for 3 years to get it on to no avail and now it's coming out and i think well of revelations what we had it was unreal there were going back to you know. get. your shit so is that it have the rich and powerful become so strong. and that investigative journalism has no place in the 21st century you probably can't reach. you know 1020000000 people with investigative stories that really attack the wealthy and powerful when you do investigative journalism which i do for a career and a living and you bump up against the rich and powerful especially if

if your publisher is friendly with those who are rich and powerful you. you know you pay a price you either are taken off the beat and given something else to do like right of it you areas or you are you know in the worst case you're fired. or you're sort of let know that you know your career is not going anywhere there so you should look elsewhere. and just a friendly reminder we also have plenty of stories on our website including their rainy and submarine full. upgrade with the new cruise missile going into mass production and get the lowdown on the. bones in the italian food. web. the discovery of a wild world to explosive you can find not story on much more on our website.

now to an engineering feat moscow and beijing have been watched a 3000 kilometer pipeline dubbed the power of siberia it will carry russian natural gas to china. today we're marking a significant truly historic moment you also need for the global energy market but for us china and russia school. our relations center in the new era and i hope russia and china will do more projects of the sky and projects that will serve the interests of our country and benefit tell people. that. the pipeline took 5 years to build and is the

biggest russian gas investment project yet robin cars have reports from beijing. the 3000 kilometer long power off siberia gas pipeline and has been commissioned by russia and china on a monday the ambitious project has united the northern hemisphere 2nd largest gas producer along with the world's 2nd largest gas consumer market economic unity and friendship between neighbors or russia and china.

and for china it couldn't be more timely the country has been using increasing amounts of gas and it's a trend that looks set to stick around for. the she's a major she projects a bilateral energy cooperation it is of great significance to deepening corroboration between the 2 countries and integrating our interests now russia is also quite pleased that with this project management we have started with the biggest restructuring projects in the world there will be nothing bigger in the sphere for years to come because this is not about breaking records this is an extremely important project for this russia and china but we all know that energy is as stake it's all fake and there is no pleasing everyone especially when someone's been cut out of the deal now the world's largest producer and consumer of natural gas the united states is now perhaps regretting driving to outcasts

countries together after waging an economic war with one and slapping sanctions on the other the us ongoing trade war with its. has driven beijing's consumption of america's flagship liquefied natural gas right down to gas like no other apparently this one has a uniquely american flavor increasing export capacity from the freeport liquefied natural gas project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving america's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy china and russia as energy corp is a double whammy for the united states which is also seeing some of its other gas consumers surging their backs on it in a matter of months and all their energy pipeline north stream soon will start flooding europe with russian gas at a faster cheaper and greener rate that is american alternative washington that must be scratching his head at how some european leaders could shun its uniquely

flavored gas in favor off a closer ties that with moscow despite its best efforts to convince them otherwise were taking germany were rejecting the french would take both of these countries and numerous other countries go out and make a pipeline and it was very good with it paying for years of the dollars into the coffers of russia that's one of the concerns the president has about north stream to why europe would voluntarily tie itself even more to russian energy supplies and we make a tough case about ensuring that germany doesn't become dependent on russian energy we don't want europe's energy supplies to be dependent on whether mir putin hong kong based political scientist has have told us why this is a win win project for both russia and china. this is significant for both china and russia china even means a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use and as he so

says from the view to ease at it and so on to to the russians. it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market the support of to develop russian far east and eastern siberia in russia we're back in just a moment stick with.

trump on hong kong protecting democracy or more meddling in the internal affairs of china also can nato as european members reimagine the alliance and more terror on the streets of london. as labor has spent a mollusc in america and the average income for americans hasn't budged at all in 2030 years because they were neutered from their ability to compete for capital labor has no seat at the table labor has no seat at the central bank labor has been abandoned the jobs have been shipped overseas wall street now gets all the crap they get 100 percent of the capital every dollar part to buy the fed goes directly to wall street bypasses labor bypasses a way to. welcome

back and over to john me now where a change in leadership and one of the ruling coalition parties has left a big question mark hanging over the alliance's future with new people at its helm the social democratic party is expected to tilt to the left something that's likely to upset the conservative allies evangelise sepsis looks at how the long standing status quo and jobs in politics could soon change and who may fill the vacuum. for decades now german voters have always favored parties in the center of the political spectrum radicals no think you give us a stable moderate government and the c.d.u. and s.p.d. were always there had been had to meet that demand but some say that this is

a little bit too dull well it's because it was but not anymore and might belong in the past if the s.p.d. is leadership is anything to go by meet walter and saskia as also known in germany as the anti merkel coalition. the real question is are we able to find dances together to the really important big questions and that's far from certain it is the english say with the grand coalition there is no way we can build a fan future there is no future in it so why is the s.p.d. leaving its old palls well it seems that the party is going through its own little crisis at the moment and they have been losing one election after the other and the grand coalition seems to be losing its popularity so in a desperate move to win more voters the social democrats are turning to socialism one o one raise minimum wage increase infrastructure and will for spending something straight out of coral marxist book no doubt and the party is going even further left calling

for the country's largest brants to be put under collective ownership and nothing less without great civilization overcoming capitalism is inconceivable the key factor is not the distribution of profits is controlled democratically as the s.p.d. is moving closer to the red corner the blue or right wing corner seems to be going through its own little struggle they've made opposition party alternative for germany is even more popular now in the eastern states causing major headaches for the center right c.b. hugh as the eye if they pushed merkel's party into 3rd place in the latest elections in 3rd. the shell shocked the c.d.u. was even forced to sit down and have a dialogue with the very anti immigration party that they wants labeled as nazis and colleagues from the f.t. faction are just as good as those from any other factions i see the a 50 is a conservative party almost 25 percent of voters gave their ballots to this party

and i don't agree with this tendency to betray the all is nazis and the if they're already smelled the blood. there will come a day when we see do you only one option. if you're expecting the alternative for germany party to embrace and into mainstream politics you'll be disappointed even film time during the 2 day congress led the centrist c.d.u. and s.p.d. and the new leader that got elected doesn't seem that he wants the change the agenda and why what he this is what got the party votes in the 1st place as the popularity of the centrist party is all fades voters find comfort in the corners of the political spectrum blue or red some say that this is just a temporary reaction while others believe this is a permanent change eventually for r.t. . 2 political analyst rainer office told us that under the nearly elected

leadership the social democrats could still turn the tide and recover from recent electoral setbacks. the new leadership made the new beginning because it's they free themselves from the grand coalition embracement which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy of eating up more and laurels the topics of the social democrats if they follow the tendency of straying themselves from this grand coalition and addressing war the needs and interests of the voters than i think he has been he could gain. in the public. and bring her back some of the stories making headlines a play a penny a gunman has injected 10 people in new orleans louisiana 2 of them critically please have detained and male suspect witnesses say he opened fire. to cation.

riot police in the french city of mass say have come in for heavy criticism after they knocked down an elderly woman at a demonstration one protester tried to help police confronted them with batons the rally itself was how to commemorate an 8 year old woman who died last year after a pit police take aspirin 8 in the face. and china has sanctioned several american and among them human rights watch and freedom house on top of that beijing suspended all u.s. navy visits to hong kong it's all in retaliation against new u.s. legislation targeting rights abuses people in hong kong those celebrated waving american flags to show their support. that brings you up to speed with the news from all around while there's plenty more on all our stories on our website com coming your way now though it's crosstalk.

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle trump on hong kong protecting democracy or more meddling in the internal affairs of china also can nato as european members reimagine the alliance and more terror on the streets of london. cross talking some real news i'm joined by i guess robert bridge he's an r.t. website writer also we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine our

gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's go to marcus 1st in london let's talk about. the trumpet ministrations agreement least tacitly to sanction the china over what's going on in hong kong when something i just don't really seem to understand i mean out and looking at hong kong i know that there's an enormous amount of inequality there that is the responsibility of the hong kong government and it's a one country 2 systems so why all the arrow at beijing and of course we know the united states is cheering it on along with its western allies as an irritant to china go ahead marcus your thoughts. anyone serious. or. concludes that what's happening in hong kong indeed what is going how can it since this is concerts it is well planned and it is exceedingly. no

executed and it is only possible true this a cold or special surfaces then we have to ask which special surfaces in the wilds of holland it will or you merely need to do is look at the so cool protests in hong kong and in my opinion they are no longer protests as they are militants look at the flats they are waving they are waving american and british flags look at the answers they are singing they are seeing in the american and british out from still look at the support the political circle they are now out of the city even from america this week we had donald trump signs a lot. which condemns china and risks american tariffs because of the summer cold and refreshing in hong kong so it is my opinion that american and british services are tense in to the east.